Hey Noll,
I tried out your idea in a game. I played Germany.
LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!!
Do you see any Germans? Do you see any Italians? Of course not! They have been TOTALLY wiped out off the face of the earth. They don’t even exist anymore.
The attached pics show the end result of our game. First you see Europe just crowded with British and Americans. Then you see what’s left of Japan’s empire, just a few guys stuck out on some islands to go crazy by themselves.
Okay, actually this isn’t really a result of your new game idea, but of a tremendous blunder on the part of our Japan player. Actually, it was looking good for the Axis right at first. Germany smashed the Royal Navy with minimal losses in aircraft. Italy was showing strong in the Med and poised to take Egypt (with a shiny new IC placed by UK) and Japan had taken Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaya, half of the DEI and were in good shape to get Calcutta.
That’s when Japan really screwed up. They had purchased some warships to fight off the US fleet, most of which was by Hawaii, but had NOT A SINGLE UNIT ON JAPAN ITSELF! All land units were on transports taking Hong Kong, etc. and all the planes were on the mainland or on carriers.
Well, like I said, the US had a good size fleet at the naval base in Hawaii so on the US turn 2, they floated right up to SZ 6 and promptly sank the Japanese warships there. Then they “walked” onto Japan with 1 transport worth of units – 1 infantry + 1 artillery – and took out Japan. US got about 50 IPCs or so plundered from Japan, plus reduced their major IC to a minor.
Japan did have enough stuff in range to take Japan back, but the US also had a back-up fleet, this one with 3 or 4 transports of men and equipment, ready to hit them again. Which they did and took Japan again, gaining another 50 IPCs or so. This time Japan lost all but 1 or 2 transports and those were out of range. Japan was done for and after 2 or 3 rounds of mopping them up, ALL the Allies started heading for Europe.
Germany managed to take Moscow but the USA took Rome in the same round. USA and Germany traded Northern Italy for a couple of rounds until USA finally won the territory with enough left over to keep it. It was only a matter of time after that. USA and UK kept taking territories along the Atlantic, Moscow got liberated and Calcutta just kept sending tanks and bombers to Europe. Finally, after 14 rounds, we ended up with what you see in the pics.
I think if Japan hadn’t made such a moronic blunder, this could have very well been an Axis victory. By the way, the rounds did go a little faster not having to mess with ANZAC, China and France.
Axis Defeated Europe.JPG
Axis Defeated Pacific.JPG
